Mop.



T. 1. ELLIS.

- MOP.

ABPLICATlON FILED JULY 6,1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

" Lass e s mme -ELLIS, or rr l l- A Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Ma Application filed July 6, 1915. 7 Serial Nd. 32,206.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, THOMAS J; ELLIs,-fa"

citizen of the United States, residing at" Loda, in the county of Iroquois and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mops and has as its object to provide a mop so constructed that the mop cloth may be held with any desired degree of firmness against the floor or other surface being scrubbed.

Another aim of the invention is to so construct the head of the mop that a mop cloth may be readily engaged therewith and removed therefrom, the construction of the head being such as to render it unnecessary to employ any clamps of any nature whatsoever which clamps in the ordinary construction of mops become broken or disarranged rendering the entire mop useless.

Another aim of the invention is to provide with a mop of the class mentioned having a head adapted to be brought to bear more or less firmly against the -mop cloth, means whereby the mop cloth may be held and supported at its normally free end when draped back over the said head.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure l is a perspective view of the mop embodied in the present invention, the mop cloth being draped back over the head referred to above; Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the end of the mop cloth disengaged from its supporting means; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the mop the mop cloth being removed; Fig. d is a perspective view of the head of the mop the mop cloth being removed.

In the drawings, the handle of the mop, or, in other words, the mop stick, is indicated by the numeral 1 and may be of. any desired cross sectional contour and of any desired length and this handle is provided at its lower end with a. ferrule 2 having a forwardly projecting apertured ear 3 and a laterally projecting ear 4 also formed with an aperture. The head of the mop is preferably formed from a single length of heavy wire or rod material bent to provide a shank portion 5 which is fitted through the opening in the ear 4 and which extends beside the ferrule 2 and has its upper end bent laterally as at 6 and driven through the handle 1 at a point a short distance above the ferrule 2. Below the ear 4 the wire from which the head is formed is bent laterally as at 7 and thence back upon itself as at 8 to form bar 9 extending in 'spacedrelat'ion to the portion 5 or the portion 7 so that the mop head as a whole is in the nature of a transverse elongated loop open at its upper side to permit of the engagement of the mop cloth, indicated by the numeral 11, at one of its ends with the bar 9 of the head, the cloth preferably comprising several plies of material united at their end edges and the cloth being applied to the head by fitting the cloth at one end over the bar 9 and portion 10 in the manner clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings so that the said end of the cloth will be resting between the bar 9 and the portions 7 and 10 of the said head.

In order that the mop cloth may be brought to bear more or less firmly against the surface being scrubbed or mopped, there is provided a means which will now be described.

The numeral 12 indicates the shank por tion of an arm and this shank portion is fitted through the opening in the ear 8 and at its upper end is bent laterally and driven as at 13 into the handle 1. Below the ear 3 the arm is extended forwardly and downwardly as indicated at 14 and is provided with a transverse head at its forward end, which head is indicated by the numeral 15 and is provided with a series of teeth 16.

It will now be understood that in the use of the mop pressure may be brought to bear more or less firmly upon the mop cloth by so inclining the mop handle as to cause the head 15 to bear more or less firmly against the cloth and it will further be apparent that the teeth 16 serve to prevent slipping of the cloth with relation to the head 15 as the mop is moved back and forth. It will also be understood that the head 15 may be engaged with the cloth at practically any point in the length thereof so that different portions of the cloth may be employed and the cloth will not be liable to become worn at one point.

In order that the normally free end of the mop cloth may be held and supported when the cloth is draped back over the head 15 in the manner shown in Fig. l of the drawings, a finger 17 projects forwardly and upwardly from the ferrule 2 at the forward side thereof and is provided with a hooked end 18 engageable in an Opening 19 formed in the said end of the mop cloth.

Having thus described the invention, What 7 a 5 is claimed as new 1s In a mop, a handle, a mop cloth carrying head carried by the handle, an arm extending forwardly from the handle, a mop cloth engaging head carried by the arm, and 21 Copies of this patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the finger rigidly'connected with the handle and projecting forwardly therefrom and extending above the said arm and adapted for the engagement therewith ,of a mop cloth connected withthe said mop cloth carrying head. i

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

THOMAS J. ELLIS. Ls

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0.

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